Tasmanian Liberal Senator, David Bushby has explained the high cost for planners in complying with an unamended FOFA regime....
Impending changes to aged care legislation will have many questioning whether or not they should sell their homes. And financial advisers will have a crucial role in stee...
Opposition parliamentarian Ed Husic has claimed ASIC is 'walking both sides of the street’ in taking a facilitative approach to regulating the implementation of the FOFA ...
The Commonwealth Bank has called for all financial advice fee payments to be made tax deductible....
Despite the best intentions, the FOFA reforms constrained quality advice and left little wriggle room for planners wanting to expand their experience, writes Rob Caprioli...
While education has long been the yardstick by which advisers are measured, the bar has been raised and standards have become more widespread than ever before. As Jason S...
An easy line of spin is being peddled on the antecedents and consequences of the Government’s FOFA amendments. But any examination of financial services history shows the...
The Government’s amendments to the FOFA legislation seemed capable of creating some loopholes around commissions but, as Mike Taylor writes, the major planning organisati...
The AFA has moved to enter the FOFA pause consultations with an analysis designed to counter a “rolling campaign of fiction and misrepresentation”....
SPAA welcomes Federal Government decision to amend how best interest duty works as part of FOFA reforms....
Minister puts brakes on both legislative and regulatory amendments to FOFA but action is well received. ...
Cormann signals FOFA reform fight....
Planners and accountants unlikely to take each other’s work due to workloads involved. ...
If it is true that only two out of 10 people seek financial advice, perhaps planners need to look to successful entrepreneurs for tips on how to raise their stake, says M...
Count launches accountants licensing offer and commits to meeting APES 230....
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...